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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. If you should decide that you want to roll heads up on REV 2, one thing to remember, be sure you yaw 45 degrees right in order to maintain your high-gain antenna COMM. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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We will not do that; we're going to stick with the flight plan, and make the best we can here.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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As usual, in the real world, the flight plan looks a lot fuller than it did in Florida.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Houston, Apollo 8. Just for your information, after we completed P52, I acquired the earth in the sextant. Quite a sight from here.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. Your SPS data looks real good. It is just a matter of getting it all in from the site and getting it looked at.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We would like to take about 5 minutes of high bit rate. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. Map update: REV 1/2, no change; the REV 2/3 follows: 73:04:57, 73:09:37, 73:19:01, 73:48:53, 74:24:23; remarks: Bravo 1 [03:02:16:24|74:16:24]. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. You are GO for REV 2; all systems are GO. SPS evaluation is still underway and looking good. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Apollo 8. We're still using the tape recorder. We will dump it in a little bit.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Houston, Apollo 8. We're in the process of preparing meal 4, day—correction: day 4, meal A.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Bill, they say they have already dumped the tape, and it's almost totally clean.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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That means you have got about 2 minutes of low bit rate on there, but the rest is clean. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Okay. Let me know when you're going to dump it next time, Jerry. I understand we are GO now on the DSE. Have you got any voice off of it?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. The voice quality on your tape was just fair-to-middling; we were able to monitor your burn and hear most of that pretty well.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. Did you get a report of the photography accomplished, or is that on the tape at present?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. You are 4 minutes and 40 seconds away from LOS. I would like a reconfirmation on your S-band AUX switch in the DOWN-VOICE BACKUP position. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. Ten seconds to LOS. All systems are GO.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear. We see your TV. It is a little bit—little bit clearer.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. The moon is very bright and not too distinct in this area. I will give you a shot of the horizon.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. It's a good picture—the horizon—we can't see many terrain features as yet.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We are beginning to pick up a few craters very dimly; the whole thing is pretty bright.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. There is not much definition up here either out on the horizon. We are now approaching the craters See and Bassett.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are going to need a cryo fan cycle sometime during this pass.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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The color of the moon looks like a very whitish gray, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Some of these craters look like pickaxes striking concrete leaving a lot of fine haze dust.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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There's some interesting features out on the other window. Let me switch windows on you now.
Spoken on Dec. 24, 1968, 11:35 a.m. UTC (55 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
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